Marrying My Bestie's Ferocious Brother - He Calls Me His Baby!-Chapter 145 - 144: Face-to-Face Confrontation! Let’s See How Arrogant You Can Still Be, Section Chief!
Principal Li stood amidst the chaos, his face so ashen it seemed about to drip water.
He clasped his hands behind his back, his gaze as sharp as lightning, sweeping over every face in the office.
When his eyes landed on Lin Wan Yi, they lingered for a moment before all his immense fury turned towards Liu Jian Country standing to the side.
"Liu Jian Country!"
Although Principal Li’s voice was not loud, it struck everyone’s heart like a heavy hammer.
Liu Jian Country shuddered and hurriedly forced a fawning smile.
"Principal, why have you come? Such a trivial matter for you to be disturbed."
Principal Li didn’t even spare him a glance.
His gaze shifted towards the two trembling security staff.
"Who allowed you to interrogate students here?"
The older of the security staff shivered and instinctively looked towards Liu Jian Country.
Sweat poured down Liu Jian Country’s face as he quickly broke the silence.
"Principal, it was me! I ordered them to do it!"
"I was only looking out for Beijing University’s reputation!"
"Classmate Lin Wan Yi and Classmate Chen Zhiyuan, they... they were alone together in the classroom acting inappropriately. It set a terrible example!"
"Oh?" Professor Qian Xuezhang adjusted his glasses and stepped out from behind Principal Li.
"Vice Director Liu, why don’t you explain what kind of inappropriate behavior?"
Professor Wang also chimed in, "Lin Wan Yi from our Agricultural College has always excelled in both character and academics, she recently even solved an agricultural problem for the state. I don’t believe she would do such a thing."
Liu Jian Country stiffened his neck.
"My daughter saw it with her own eyes! They locked the door!"
"Locked the door?"
Principal Li finally looked him in the eye, but his gaze was icy cold.
He turned to the security staff member.
"You, speak."
"When you entered, was the door locked?"
The security staff trembled and, under the principal’s piercing gaze, couldn’t bring himself to lie.
"No... not locked."
"We just... walked right in."
Bang.
The word exploded like a thunderclap among the gathered students.
"The door wasn’t locked? Then Liu Meiqin was lying, right?"
"Oh my, this is an outright false accusation!"
Liu Meiqin’s face turned pale in an instant.
She clutched her father’s arm, screaming incoherently.
"It was locked! It was! I was mistaken! No! I wasn’t wrong!"
Liu Jian Country’s face turned a crimson shade like liver.
He knew that the critical accusation of "locking the door" had collapsed.
In a panic, he seized what seemed like the final straw, pointing frantically at Lin Wan Yi.
"Even if the door wasn’t locked! It was because they were guilty and didn’t have time to lock it!"
"Chen Zhiyuan has confessed to everything!"
"It was Lin Wan Yi who seduced him! He has it in his written confession!"
He rushed to the desk, grabbing a paper filled with writing as if it were a command flag.
"Black and white! Chen Zhiyuan confessed with his own mouth!"
The office fell momentarily silent.
All eyes focused on Lin Wan Yi.
Lin Wan Yi, however, just smiled.
She turned to Gu Yanshen.
Gu Yanshen nodded, stepping forward as a terrifying aura emanated from him once more.
"Fine."
He uttered a single word.
"Face-to-face confrontation."
There was a flash of approval in Principal Li’s eyes, and he immediately ordered the security staff behind him.
"Go! Bring Chen Zhiyuan here!"
"Yes!"
The security staff, as if receiving an amnesty, dashed out in a hurry.
Liu Jian Country’s back was instantly drenched in cold sweat.
He hadn’t expected them to dare request a face-to-face confrontation!
Minutes later.
Chen Zhiyuan was brought in.
As soon as he entered and saw the scene in the office, his legs went weak.
The principal, the head of the Agricultural College, the math department titan, and several school leaders...
And the officer who looked like a living Yama.
Everyone gazed at him expressionlessly.
Thump.
Chen Zhiyuan’s knees nearly buckled.
Principal Li’s eyes, filled with disappointment, examined him closely.
"Chen Zhiyuan."
"I ask you."
"This afternoon, in the classroom of the old mathematics building."
"Who invited whom?"
Chen Zhiyuan shook uncontrollably like sifting chaff.
He opened his mouth but couldn’t make a sound.
His gaze instinctively drifted towards Liu Jian Country, his eyes filled with a plea for help.
Liu Jian Country didn’t dare look at him, turning his head away.
"I..."
Chen Zhiyuan was about to speak, following the pre-arranged script.
"Tell the truth."
A cold voice pierced above him.
Gu Yanshen had unknowingly moved in front of him.
Looking down at him with a gaze like one would look at an ant to be effortlessly crushed.
"You have one chance only."
"Lie, and I assure you, the gates of Beijing University will be forever shut to you."
"Your files, your life, will become something you’ll have to think very carefully about."
This was no threat.
It was a statement of fact.
A fact he had absolute power to ensure.
Chen Zhiyuan felt as though an invisible hand had closed around his throat, halting even his breath.
His proud knowledge, his risking everything for his future, was as fragile as paper before this man’s words.
The severely taut string snapped with a "snap".
"Wah——"
Chen Zhiyuan couldn’t hold on any longer and cried like a child.
He thudded to his knees.
Towards Lin Wan Yi, and towards the principal.
"It was me! It was all me!"
While crying, he struck his own face hard.
"I lied and deceived Classmate Lin!"
"I was jealous of her! I was just jealous!"
"Why should a woman be smarter than me! Why should Professor Wang and Professor Qian value her!"
"I made up a problem Professor Qian left and tricked her into the old classroom, wanting her to be embarrassed in an empty classroom!"
"I’m inhuman! Worse than pigs and dogs!"
The room was deathly quiet.
Only Chen Zhiyuan’s anguished cries and the sounds of his slaps echoed in the office.
Liu Meiqin was utterly stunned, staring dumbfoundedly at Chen Zhiyuan, who was kneeling and weeping bitterly, her mouth agape.
Liu Jian Country’s face turned from red to blue, from blue to white, finally becoming a deathly gray.
It’s over.
Completely over.
Principal Li shook his head in disappointment, gazing at Chen Zhiyuan kneeling on the ground with anguish.
"Students of Beijing University, pillars of the nation! To think jealousy drove someone to commit such vile and lowly deeds!"
"You have sorely disappointed me!"
After saying that, he no longer looked at Chen Zhiyuan.
His gaze, like the sharpest knife, suddenly shifted to Liu Jian Country.
Gu Yanshen also turned, joining the principal in locking Liu Jian Country in their sights.
"Vice Director Liu."
Gu Yanshen’s voice held not a hint of warmth.
"The truth is clear now."
"Do you have anything else to say?"
Liu Jian Country trembled violently, large droplets of sweat falling from his temple.
"I... I... Principal, I was misled... I didn’t know... I really didn’t know..."
He stammered, attempting to explain.
But Principal Li gave him no chance. 𝗳𝐫𝚎𝗲𝚠𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝘃𝚎𝗹.𝗰𝗼𝗺
"Misled?"
Principal Li scoffed, his voice seething with controlled anger.
"Liu Jian Country!"
"You abused your power, overstepped your authority! You set up a private trial in the security office, threatening and coercing our outstanding students!"
"Your problem isn’t simply being misled!"
Principal Li spoke every word deliberately, each one hammering into Liu Jian Country’s heart.
"This matter is extremely serious!"
"I will immediately report to the school party committee!"
"Prepare to face serious consequences from the organization!"
Liu Jian Country’s face drained of all color at that moment.
He swayed, almost unable to stand.
He knew he was finished.
Utterly finished.
In those clouded eyes, all the fear and panic faded in an instant, condensing into the deepest, most venomous hatred.
He stared fixedly at Lin Wan Yi.
